BUILDING A NEW RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAKING IT OPERATIONAL TAKES 20 YEARS, AT A COST EQUIVALENT TO THE PRICE OF ONE CAPPUCCINO PER PERSON PER YEAR.

If CERN’s Member States approve the project for a future collider, it will take 20 years to excavate the tunnel, construct all the necessary technical infrastructures and develop the detectors required for the experiments before a high-intensity lepton collider (FCC-ee) can be operated. This infrastructure could then host a proton collider (FCC-hh) pushing the energy frontiers until the end of this century.